Claudia Powers, of Bainbridge Island, finished the Boston Marathon in just over four hours Monday and was waiting at the finish line for her husband when two explosions rocked the event.

Powers and her husband, Bob Powers, were among 20 Kitsap and North Mason residents confirmed to be taking part in the annual race. Almost all have been accounted for and are OK. Two bombs exploded near the finish line at 4 hours and 9 minutes after the race began. The blasts killed three and injured more than 130, according to reports.

Kevin Lynch, a friend of Bob and Claudia Powers, said Bob Powers had been nursing a sore hamstring in the weeks leading up to the marathon and had questioned whether he would run. He kept up with Claudia for more than half the race before his injury forced him to slow down. Because of the explosions, he was unable to finish.

Peggy Van Buskirk, of North Mason, made two pit stops during her run, which family and friends believe saved her from arriving at the finish line at the time of the explosions.

Van Buskirk was about a mile from the finish line when the bombs went off, said Miranda Thygesen, a fellow runner from North Mason.

Many of the runners witnessed or at least heard the two explosions that shook the race near the finish line.

Thygesen and Stephanie Neil, also of North Mason, had finished the race nearly an hour before the first explosion and were in a changing tent a short distance away.

“We didn’t know what it was,” Thygesen said. “About five or 10 seconds later, we heard another explosion, and I said, ‘Hurry up, lets go.’ ... After running 26-and-a-half miles, you don’t think you can walk another step, let alone run. We just grabbed each others’ hands and started running.”

The two women eventually connected with family and others in their party, none of whom, including Van Buskirk, was injured.

David McVay, of Bainbridge Island, had finished the race more than an hour earlier than the blasts and was out buying food when the explosions happened, he told wife Brenda, who reported what he witnessed to the Kitsap Sun.

David McVay was staying in a hotel not far from the finish line and could see lots of ambulances parked in front of his hotel. The tents that provide post-race refreshments to runners were turned into triage units, he said.

Maria Borges, wife of runner Luis Borges of Bainbridge Island, also reported that her husband, who finished about a half-hour before the blast, had made it to his hotel OK.

Everyone had been asked to stay in their rooms, both McVay and Borges said. The Powers eventually found each other and returned to their hotel. Lynch said the Powers had left their children in Virginia with relatives and went to Boston the day before the race.

Mary Ann Reichley, mother of first-time Boston Marathon runners Abigail, 34, and Luke, 26, received a call from Luke shortly after the first bomb exploded.

The two and their spouses had just walked into their hotel when they heard a loud explosion and saw smoke near the finish line, said Mary Ann Reichley, of Brownsville.

“It shook the building. It was a really big (explosion),” she said. “They went running to the window and saw another (explosion). And saw people on the ground.”

Abigail Reichley finished the marathon in 3 hours and 22 minutes, roughly 50 minutes before the first explosion occurred. Luke Reichley finished the race about 20 minutes earlier than his sister.

Mary Ann Reichley said her children come from a family of marathon runners. Abigail previously ran in New York and California.

“It’s really upsetting,” she said of the explosions. “When you run a race like that, you get close to everyone.”

Kelsi Canavan, of Silverdale, said she was on her way back to the hotel when the bomb exploded.

Other Silverdale runners include Travis Friedman, Joey Gutjahr and Matthew Taran. Friedman confirmed on Facebook he was OK.

Other Bainbridge Island runners included Charlie Quinn, Ken Pinchiff and Peter Vosshall. Ron Copstead was on the list of runners, but according to the Boston Marathon website he did not run.

Quinn wrote on his own Facebook wall he will remember the kids lining the streets handing out high fives and oranges. “I will choose to remember that and not some stupid, senseless act,” he wrote. Family members of Pinchiff confirmed on his page that he made it out OK, and Vosshall was interviewed by the Bainbridge Island Review.

Kevin Fischer, 33, of Port Orchard, completed the course well before the explosions (shortly before 1 p.m.). According to Fischer’s Facebook page, he and his sisters were safe back at their hotel about an hour after the blast. Terry Fritz, 50, of Port Orchard, did not run. Nor did Jeffrey Moen of Bremerton, according to the race website.